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OP-ED: You can’t stop fentanyl

Fentanyl has killed more Americans than the wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan combined. And lined up behind it are still more vicious street drugs.The Justice Department can indict Chinese companies producing fentanyl and the precursor chemicals used to make it. The Biden administration can ...

OP-ED: Hamas uses Israel’s humanity against It

Hamas is banking on short memories, lazy journalism and short fuses. The lies it told about the Al-Ahli al-Arabi Hospital event illustrate the war on truth that it conducts simultaneously with sadistic attacks on civilians. Hamas鈥檚 attack on Israel constituted an encyclopedia of war crimes: ...

With the world on fire, it’s Joe time

On Air Force One, while flying from Tel Aviv back to Washington, D.C., early Thursday morning, President Joe Biden paid a rare call to the plane鈥檚 press section.Having shed a business suit for a casual zippered sweater for the 14-hour hour flight home, Biden told the reporters that 鈥渘ot ...

EDITORIAL: Term limits would deprive us of skilled lawmakers

When Massachusetts U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy died in 2009, he was fondly recalled for his finely honed skills as a legislator. Commentators and members of Congress on both sides of the aisle noted the abundance of laws that had landed on the books in his 47 years in the Senate that he had ...

Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> Cheers to the Belle Vernon boys golf team for winning the WPIAL Class AA boys team championship last Thursday, putting the disappointment behind them of a year ago when they came agonizingly close only to lose to Sewickley Academy in playoff. ...

OP-ED: ‘The Golden Bachelor’: Fantasy or real?

鈥淭he Golden Bachelor鈥 is a popular reality TV show. It opens with a handsome, impeccably groomed 72-year-old adjusting a bow tie. In the background we hear Cat Stevens singing 鈥淭he Wind,鈥 a sharp hook into the boomer soul.The bachelor finally says: 鈥淚鈥檓 Gerry. Tonight is the first ...